The boat racked like an old basket, letting in water at every seam and
split. Sharp flashes of lightning caused by heat and vapor shot across the
gloom, rendering the scene doubly horrid. Thus passed the night. Day came
and thirst pressed upon us, which we could only allay by wetting our mouths
twice a day with a few drops of wine and water, and as many times with our
urine.Captain James Riley, recounting being shipwrecked off the coast of
Morocco in 1815.